Chris Burns has been appointed Head of Local Radio at the BBC, charged with delivering the impossible - ensuring there is a 'more-joined-up' approach to serving audiences, whilst giving more freedom to be different to local radio editors.
She has the experience to give it a go. She started with the BBC as the first afternoon presenter on Radio Bedfordshire (now 3CR) in 1985. She's presented, produced and edited You and Yours, presented Woman's Hour, produced Any Questions, done social affairs programmes for Radio 1, and had a spell as Managing Editor Radio Kent. Don't ask her about her time as programme controller of Viva! in 1995 - a London 24-hour talk and music station for women, chaired by Lynne Franks in her Ab-Fab pomp. It closed after peaking at a weekly reach of 125,000.
Chris was Chair of the Radio Academy from 2015 until April this year. She's currently Chief Operating Officer within the Deputy Director General’s Group. According to the press release she said "I’m looking forward to helping nurture local talent, and leading the work to reinvent Local Radio for the next generation.”
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